visual gulch
I stumbled across this screenshot and was just curious how they've managed to make Online "False" red and "True" green?
The only way I am aware of doing this is by using Dotnet objects like [System.Console]::ForegroundColor but then this would mean the output isn't a typical PowerShell output, but rather a giant string.
I noticed aswell the sorting is hard-coded into the .ps1 file and not piped so maybe that's hte case but I just wanted to check I hadn't missed a trick?
twilit void
You can either add it to the property (bad if you want to use it for something) or set a pstypename on the psco and add formatting.
The best way is to do it with formatting as that doesnt change the object only the presentation.
You can use $PSStyle for easy access to the VT codes or if you want more options the module Pansies is pretty nice
The module EZOut makes it pretty easy to add your own formats.
'{0}{1}First - {2}{3}Second - {4}{5}{6}Bold' -f $PSStyle.Foreground.Red, $PSStyle.Background.Green, $PSStyle.Foreground.Green, $psstyle.Background.Red, $PSStyle.Blink, $PSStyle.Background.Yellow, $PSStyle.Foreground.BrightCyan
Example
visual gulch
Thanks, I hadn't heard of any of these. Just read up a bit on PSStyles and I can see it can be used for errors etc, is there anyway to change the text by a regex or anything? Or is just whether it's an error or as you write to the terminal?
twilit void
Which text do you mean?
The PSStyle is just a shortcut for the ansi escape/vt codes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
The PSStyle foreground / background is the 4bit colors. But most terminals today support 24bit / rgb
Some fun vt stuff
https://gist.github.com/trackd/7bb33e3bdfa9b067c85b5a44c9bd31e9
https://gist.github.com/trackd/c0d18512a56c0ba3c0b8e588d997f207
https://pwshspectreconsole.com/ makes it pretty easy to use without messing with codes
Here is an example how you can do it with formatting, pretty similar to your screenshot.
https://github.com/trackd/PSFuzzyMatcher/blob/main/PSFuzzyMatcher.format.ps1xml#L63-L79
compact agate
You can also do coloring in your script, or in a wrapper/proxy for your format script, like https://gist.github.com/Jaykul/41c6afaa9f7b2f3efd4ff66a357f506e
